My life as a Chinese farmer near Ninetree Village has been very fascinating throughout my life time. The village that is located near a small valley, bordered by a dense bamboo forest which is in South-eastern China. My whole life has been surrounded by farming. My father was a farmer, he taught my brother and me everything there is to know about farming. Now, I guess I can say it is my time, as a farmer to raise a family. My family consists of four children aging from ten to seventeen years old and my wife of 25 years. The well-being of my family has changed for the better over the past few years but we still continue to lack major necessities from health care. We are fortunate to have money to buy food and clothes at times. My typical day as a farmer has been a routine that I have mastered over the years after being raised on a farm with my parents. The day generally starts out at 6:00 am in the morning each day, after an early breakfast. After breakfast, I head out to the fields gathering the broccoli and potatoes for the day so I can bring them home and prepare our family’s dinner. I would usually have some spare time to do mild repairs in the village or just relax and spend a little more time with my family. Usually, we will have fresh vegetables and beef or chicken for our meal. Normally, we can afford to buy meat within the local village shops and markets. The shops within the village offer a variety of things to be creative with. Technological advances have made our lives better the beginning of the decade. My family has been able to have access to computers, the internet, and cell phones...

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b) The farmers want themselves heard since they have some genuine problems. The discussion of the suicide trends is helping to bring the issue to centre stage.
c) Now that money is being doled out to suicide affected families, there is a distinct possibility that normal suicides would be given a color of ‘farmer suicide’.
d) Is it a case of improved reporting to the police with the coming of better technology?
e) The media has found an emotive issue to highlight.
This makes us ask the question: are all these factors together fanning hype?
Hype it definitely is but it is not based on nothing. ANOTHER REALITY DOES RING ALARM BELLS.
The study conducted by Srijit Mishra (IGIDR) is comprehensive on the trends in suicide patterns over the decade 1995 to 2005. It has found that the number of suicides of men increased by around 3000 heads (from 6882 to 9903 cases … page 40) and in the same period the increase in farmer deaths in particular went up by around the same figure (from 978 to 3799… page 49) meaning that the increase in the over all figures is almost totally on account of the increase in the number of farmer suicides. As the report states it, the increase of Farmer suicides in that period is close to 300%. In other words, there is an abnormally high increase in the cases of farmer-suicides.
This effect should have...

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In the late 1800s, many farmers were trapped in a vicious economic cycle. Crops
prices began falling and farmers were often forced into mortgaging their farms so they
could buy more land and produce more crops to break even. Good farming land was
becoming scarce and the banks took over the mortgages of farmers who couldn't make
payments on their loans; the railroads, on the other end, took advantage of farmers by
charging them excessive prices for shipping and storage--both equally frustrating the
troubled farmer, who in a way resembled a larger economic problem that was affecting
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Banks controlled the farmer by the neck, casting their shadow on the farmer's
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The main source of agrarian discontent with the railroads was a result of the rising railroad rates that made it increasingly difficult for the farmers to make a decent living by shipping their crops via freight trains. In a book called The Octopus, a farmer named Dyke planned to ship his hops and was shocked upon discovering that the railroad rate had increased from two cents per pound to five cents per pound, rendering him unable to make any profit at all (Document H). This practice of raising the railroad rates without warning was unfair to the farmers and made it virtually impossible for any farmer to make a profit by shipping his crops.
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...suicidescommitted by farmers across India.
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• Farmers' demands were not taken into account while preparing the relief package. Neither were civil society organisations, local government bodies, panchayats etc. consulted.
• The relief packages were mostly amalgamations of existing schemes. Apart from the farmer helpline and the direct financial assistance, there was scarcely anything new being offered. Pumping extra funds into additional schemes shows that no new idea was applied to solve a situation where existing measures had obviously failed.
• The farmer helpline did not give any substantial help to farmers except in Karnataka.
• The basis for selection of beneficiaries under the assistance scheme was not well-defined. Also, type of assistance to be given led to problems like a farmer needing a pair of bullocks getting a pump set and vice versa (or a farmer who has no access to water sources being given pump sets)
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